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E: 01/01 £250

Solve the crossword

Entries to this Competition Send your entries to Crossword, Private Eye, 6 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BN
or via email to

[EMAIL="crossword@private-eye.co.uk"]crossword@private-eye.co.uk[/EMAIL]
Al Mac Appreciation Society No. 188

Comments

  • Andy2342
    Andy2342 Posts: 146 Forumite
    might have been more helpful if you'd put the answers in your post
    Wins: pink kids laptop :(
  • Gilla_2
    Gilla_2 Posts: 13,228 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    I'm not very good at cryptic clues .................and this has some veeeeeeery strange clues !
    42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot
    :hello: Good Luck everyone !:hello:
  • I see Andys back trying to be rude yet again!! Thanks Ricky for this one :D
    2021 Please Be A Better Year
  • you should automatically get £250 for working out all these answers by yourself :)
  • rrickyuk
    rrickyuk Posts: 8,335 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Andy2342 wrote: »
    might have been more helpful if you'd put the answers in your post

    You shouldn't get out of that side of the bed, you know. It does you no favours. :rotfl:
    Al Mac Appreciation Society No. 188
  • oooh crikey... might have to leave this one
    ;) Working hard in the hopes of being 'lucky' ;)
  • LizB62
    LizB62 Posts: 5,026 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Blimey - that's a tricky one.
    I'll print it off and see if my dad will have a go at it ;)

    ** update - actually, I've just looked at the clues for 14A and 20A - not sure I'll give this to my dad to solve after all .........:o
    Best win ever: Trip to the Galapagos Islands in 2010
  • :o:o They're all really rude!!! :o:o
    :A
  • Amilucky?
    Amilucky? Posts: 13,794 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    As I feel that it would be unfair to post the answers on MSE from my undisclosed source I have come up with a cunning plan! :cool:

    The Private Eye Crossword no 381 answers are in encrypted form copy and paste the encryption into the form here http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ to decrypt the answers then copy and paste the answers into a email

    Email: [EMAIL="crossword@private-eye.co.uk"]crossword@private-eye.co.uk[/EMAIL]
    Subject: Crossword no 381

    Note: some words may have spaces or may need amending as they appear to be lost in translation :rolleyes:

    Note: only copy the text in between the hashes

    Encryption begins
    ##########################################
    %0AAnswers%20are%3A%0A%0Aacross%0A13%20pretentiousness%0A14%20hanky-panky%0A15%20celine%0A16%20chill%0A17%20expansive%0A18%20fawn%0A19%20private-sector%0A20%20mufti%0A21%20ice-age%0A23%20streaky%0A26%20gold%0A27%20arthurian%0A28%20dion%0A30%20embalmer%0A31%20craig%0A33%20sieve%0A34%20tracey%0A36%20love%0A37%20funds%0A38%20melon%0A40%20satan%0A41%20lush%0A42%20stress%0A45%20exhort%0A47%20indigo%0A48%20rabble%0A51%20gsoh%0A53%20macaw%0A54%20raine%0A55%20brief%0A57%20five%0A58%20cannon%0A59%20rural%0A61%20tanya%0A62%20take-care%0A63%20as-if%0A65%20laughable%0A66%20bike%0A67%20brothel%0A69%20satnav%0A70%20tidal%0A71%20richard-madeley%0A74%20emin%0A76%20stockings%0A78%20splat%0A79%20lauren%0A80%20giles-coren%0A81%20standing-ovation%0A%0A%0Adown%0A1%20upkeep%0A2%20semiliterate%0A3%20geneva%0A4%20sticker%0A5%20police-force%0A6%20isolated%0A7%20meteor%0A8%20vsop%0A9%20antivivisectionists%0A10%20by-design%0A11%20half-dead%0A12%20ekow%0A14%20hanif-kureishi%0A20%20mates%0A22%20grovels%0A24%20tim-lott%0A25%20kampf%0A27%20a-a-gill%0A29%20printed-circuit-board%0A34%20tenor%0A35%20ad-lib%0A39%20nankeen%0A43%20eshun%0A44%20semen%0A46%20howard-hodgkin%0A49%20laverne%0A52%20swansea%0A55%20blackballing%0A56%20fakir%0A57%20face-the-music%0A60%20libel%0A64%20finances%0A65%20lovesick%0A66%20backside%0A71%20rascal%0A72%20afloat%0A73%20eyeing%0A75%20mein%0A77%20nest%0A
    ##############################################################
    Encryption ends
    Warning: This message will self destruct in 60 seconds :eek::eek::eek::eek:
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